Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon attacks against Ukraine donât seem to have stopped. In June malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi spotted a new suspicious […]
Analyzing how tactics, techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time. APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). It is also known as Sofacy Group (by Kaspersky) or STRONTIUM (by Microsoft) and itâs used to target Aereospace, Defence, Governmente Agencies, International […]
Experts spotted a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare that has been used in highly targeted attacks aimed at energy and industrial organizations in the Middle East. Security experts at IBM X-Force found a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare (the name ZeroCleare comes from the path in the binary file) that has been used in highly targeted […]
Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the âHi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020â report. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape. According to Group-IBâs experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. The […]
APT33, the Iran-linked APT group, has been using multiple layers of obfuscation to run a dozen live C2 servers for extremely targeted attacks. APT33, the Iran-linked APT group, has been using multiple layers of obfuscation to run a dozen live C2 servers involved in extremely targeted malware attacks. The targeted malware campaigns aimed at organizations […]
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Controversial law entered into effect in Russia this week First Cyber Attack âMass Exploiting BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild New Gafgyt botnet targets Gaming Servers Everis and Spains radio network Cadena SER hit by ransomware Exclusive […]
Kaspersky researchers have found a new advanced backdoor used by the Platinum advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks in the wild. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. […]
Kaspersky discovered a previously unknown APT group, tracked as DarkUniverse, by analyzing Shadow Brokers’ “Lost in Translation” data dump. In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group, then it published online the data dump called “Lost in Translation.” The dump […]
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected […]
One of the two flaws in Chrome addressed by Google, CVE-2019-13720, was exploited in a campaign that experts attribute to Korea-linked threat actors. This week Google released security updates to address two high severity vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, one of which is a zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild to hijack […]